Eating In Waiheke

After our bird life adventures, we headed over to Onetangi to have lunch at Three Seven Two, a restaurant we’d discovered the previous year which seems to be going great guns at the moment. It’s on The Strand at Onetangi, with great views out over the beach. I had the kingfish and Nicola had Stracciatella cheese with nectarines. This is definitely a good place and will be on our itinerary for future visits (whenever they may be – we plan to take a break from Waiheke next year).

After a swim at the beach there, we made our way back to Oneroa for some ice cream at the ever-popular Island Gelato Company. Then we lollygagged all afternoon.

In the evening we went to the bistro at Cable Bay Vineyard. This is one of the more upmarket vineyard dining options on Waiheke. Having perused their menu, we decided to do a DIY tapas-style dinner rather than a standard three-course, and ordered a selection of small plates and entrees including goats cheese croquettes, chicken, prawns, salmon and mixed veg. Put like that, it doesn’t sound like much, but it was all beautifully prepared, many with a Japanese-style dressing or flavour. Another one to visit again, when time allows.

We’d set the satellite system in the car to take us there, but failed to set it to take us home, thinking we’d be able to find our way without any problem. Not so. We’d missed a turn somewhere, and found ourselves heading along an unfamiliar road. As we drove along, we saw three figures walking by the side of the road, so thought we couldn’t be too far from habitation…until the road petered out in a dead end. We turned around, again spotted the three people, who waved us down. They were as lost as we were! They turned out to be cabin crew for Qatar Airways, over here on a day trip, and had been led astray by Google Maps on their way back to the ferry. It had been daylight when they set out to walk back to the ferry, but now the sky was darkening and they were worried. Having set the sattie to home, we gave them a ride down to the ferry terminal so that they could get back to Auckland. Fortunately the ferries run late at night, and they would have been able to get the 9:30 back to the mainland.

Good deed for the day done, we returned to our studio. Tomorrow we head back to Auckland.